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Example sentences for "teetered"

Lexicographically close words:
teenth; teenty; teepee; teepees; teeter; teetering; teeth; teethe; teething; teetotal
  1. Bea suddenly tipped back in her chair, teetered to and fro for a frantic moment, then brought it down with a bump on all four feet.

  2. His big frame teetered and he almost fell.

  3. Willie coughed and teetered out of the saddle to the road.

  4. Pop teetered and gummed his tobacco and grinned foxily.

  5. Grandpa teetered forward and put out his hand.

  6. The stranger teetered in his chair and smoked.

  7. From time to time he paused and teetered his chair and scowled over his pipe at the starlit night outside.

  8. He got up, planted both feet on it and teetered back and forth, chuckling up at Bud with his eyes squinted.

  9. A startled bluejay, on a limb high up on the bank, lifted his slaty crest and teetered forward, clinging with his toe nails to the branch while he scolded down at the men who had scared him so.

  10. He teetered so enthusiastically that he sat down unexpectedly and with much emphasis.

  11. Then he teetered it again and says, like he was lecturing on a platform: "This is an ideal problem for the metaphysical mind.

  12. He teetered the trunk jauntily and says: "Your device was admirable; you will always know where those keys are.

  13. So each one of us took a turn and teetered the trunk back and forth and heard the imprisoned keys jingle against the side where they was hung.

  14. Mrs. Kukor made one of that group, having teetered in directly Big Tom and Mr. Perkins were gone.

  15. As she teetered out, it was plain that she was all but in a panic to get away.

  16. Too concerned to make any apology for her unannounced entrance, she teetered hastily to Big Tom's side.

  17. Marian's fear dissolved in giggles as they teetered up the narrow board walk to the low brick farm-house.

  18. Illustration: The spot she teetered to most of all.

  19. The spot she teetered to most of all was a little cup-shaped hollow high up on the border of the ledge, where the sumachs were big as small trees and where the sweet fern scented the air.

  20. When Rafe said his last word, Jack Murray laid his unlighted cigarette across the end of his left index finger and teetered it slowly.

  21. He stretched his long legs out in front of him and teetered his heels on the rowels of his spurs.

  22. Slike teetered his chair back on two legs and laughed loudly, but without cheer.

  23. The girl teetered out on her spiky heels, with a sway of hips.

  24. The machine teetered again, then a score of men were under it and lowering it gently into the bucket.

  25. The great square mysterious box thrust out over the lip, teetered there as if it would plunge into the bucket.

  26. A little song-sparrow came and teetered on a twig.

  27. You were on the ground, flat, peeping under the grass, and you were so still that a cricket came and teetered on a grass-stalk near at hand.

  28. The tall Rogan teetered up to the prisoners on his gangling legs, and stared icily at them.

  29. Full in the face of the death tube he teetered forward, his arms reaching savagely toward the Earthman.

  30. Driving his right hand into his right trousers pocket he cleared the three lower steps at a bound and teetered upon his toes on the very edge of the fourth one.

  31. For once in his life, and once only, Sergeant Jimmy Bagby teetered just the least bit in his unquestioning allegiance to his life-long friend.

  32. Once more the man teetered on one foot, and held out the coin temptingly.

  33. He suddenly stood erect, teetered fantastically on one foot, as if about to begin to dance, and held out a glittering silver dollar.

  34. These rode atop the loads: their feet were tied to the cords and there they swayed and teetered and balanced all day long, apparently quite happy and interested.

  35. He teetered along with a mincing up and down step, every movement, and the expression of his face displaying a fatuous self-satisfaction.

  36. Her head teetered and tottered and gradually sank till her delicate chin rested in her delicate bosom.

  37. Chris reeled back, teetered on the edge of nothingness, then went tumbling crazily down into the sand-trap behind.

  38. A ragged scream that marked the passing of Kashtanov split through the air for a flash of time, and the dark, blurred mass that was an airplane teetered clean over and flopped into the rushing spillway channel.

  39. The round pane of glass teetered back, swung open--and the masked man slung his metal burden out, out from the ZX-1 into the gulf between sea and sky.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teetered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.